General Science and Science Projects

• Access Science - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. A collection of science reference materials, online and fully searchable. ACCESS Science provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopaedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available.
  - available for use on Ryde Library Services PC's. Also available for access at home by members of Ryde Library Services, by use of the Ryde Library membership card number.
• Bunsen Bobs Science Hunt
• Extreme Science
• Exploratorium - Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of over 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits. Our site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
• Froguts.com - Froguts is the first true virtual online frog dissection.
• FT Exploring - a science oriented American site for older primary kids.
• Genomics - a brief guide to genomics - DNA, genes, and genomes
• The Lab
• Maths & Science Gateway - This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science
• Sage Online - a bibliographic database indexing popular journals across a broad range of subjects. Most journals indexed are Australian but several overseas titles are also included. It covers practically all disciplines of knowledge, though the scientific ones are most heavily represented. The scope of the SAGE Online database, and the range of journals included, is determined by the needs of schools and public libraries.
  - available for use on Ryde Library Services PC's ONLY
• Science Fair Central
• Science Learning Network
• Science Reference Centre - provides easy access to a multitude of full text science oriented content. Contains full text for 640 science encyclopaedias, reference books, periodicals. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, scientists, technology and wildlife.
  - available for use on Ryde Library Services PC's. Also available for access at home by members of Ryde Library Services, by use of the Ryde Library membership card number.
• Science Resource Center - an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.
  - available for use on Ryde Library Services PC's. Also available for access at home by members of Ryde Library Services, by use of the Ryde Library membership card number.
• Successful Science Fair Projects

Chemistry

• CHEMystery - An interactive guide to chemistry
• Rader's Chem4kids
• Science made fun

Health  

• American Cancer Society
• The Cancer Council Australia
• Genetic & Rare Conditions Site - Information on Genetic Conditions and Birth Defects
• InteliHealth
• Kids Connect - Our House AIDS & HIV page
• KidsHealth
• MedLine Plus
• Something Fishy - website of eating disorders
• TeensHealth

• The Heart
• KidsHealth
• Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World
• TeensHealth
• The Virtual Body

• DC physics
• Einsteins Big Idea
• Fear of Physics
• Kids Web
• The Science of Ballooning

 Other

• Access Excellence - the site for health & bioscience teachers and learners
• The Biology Project
• Cells Alive  
• Gene Almanac
• Genomics - cloning a global resource  
• Microbe Zoo
• Zeno's Forensic Site